Python · FastAPI · Data Pipelines
One language, end-to-end: API, scheduling, external data, observability, practical patterns.
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Lessons
- 8
Python is the most-agreed-upon language for data work. With FastAPI you build APIs, with APScheduler you run scheduled jobs, and with PostgreSQL you store the result.
By the end:
- Build a small FastAPI server
- Split folders by domain
- Connect PostgreSQL with a real pool
- Run scheduled jobs with APScheduler
- Call external APIs ethically (rate-limit, robots.txt)
- Build an observable service
- Routers, validation, errors, CORS — FastAPI patterns that don't break in practice
Flow
Completing a data service
Define the problems suited to Python and assign folder responsibilities.
Implement PostgreSQL and scheduler contracts for retries and concurrent runs.
Respect upstream boundaries while building an idempotent data pipeline.
Expose processing state through metrics and explicit FastAPI failure responses.
Steps 1–4 build the service skeleton (language · structure · DB · schedule). Steps 5–8 complete the data-flow story (external calls · pipelines · operations).
Prerequisite — Python 3.13 + uv installed.
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